Dear Editor:

The following is a letter I request you publish (also a copy is attached):

" Taxpayers unite! Halt Lawton¹s folly!

At Tuesday¹s City Commission meeting, I called for a BLUE-RIBBON

COMMISSION to investigate the City¹s involvement with SME and for tabling

the City¹s placing $1.4 million ($1,400,000.00) in a SECURITY FUND

accessible by SME / PPL. My requests were ignored.

The City, through its energy company ECP, has been buying power from PPL

via SME and selling it to its customers for less than it pays for it. The

City covers these LOSSES by giving SME a credit for water the city would

sell SME if the coal plant were built.

Can this SECURITY FUND be tapped to cover water credits when the plant is

not built??

Is this the true purpose of the FUND??

When the plant is not built, will the city ask ECP¹s customers to cover

the shortfall?

Have ECP'S customers agreed to cover the shortfall??

If so, why don't the CUSTOMERS cover their share of the deposit?

If not, why has the city not told its taxpayers that it expects us to pay

some of the electric costs of its major businesses???

The financial crisis surrounding the City¹s involvement in SME falls on

us!! As taxpayers, we have a right to know exactly what the City

Commission and Manager Lawton have agreed to, and to VOTE on whether we

approve!

The upcoming city election is a referendum on the coal plant. It is an

opportunity for voters to make major changes. REGISTER, LISTEN, VOTE!"

Stuart Lewin

Candidate for City Commission